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Localities at the Center: Native Place, Space, and Power in Late Imperial Beijing
USA, Harvard University Asia Center, 2001. 1 volume, hard-cover with illustrated dust-jacket, in-8, 318 pp., 25 figures, 9 tables, very good copy.
Contents: Placing This Work - Native Place Lodges Beyond Beijing - The Particular Characteristics of Beijing Scholar-Official Native-Place Lodges - Huiguan in Space - Huiguan as Space - Native-Place Rituals - The Corporate Character of Lodge Property - State-Lodge Cooperation in the Maintenance of Order - The Articulation of Regional Interests in Beijing - Native Place and the Reform Movement of the 1890s - Beijing Huiguan in the Twentieth Century - Conclusion.
